Why is Antarctica’s mighty Thwaites Glacier melting? Earth’s great ice sheets, Greenland and Antarctica, are now losing mass six times faster than they were in the 1990s thanks to warming Continue Reading
The Latest on the coronavirus outbreak sweeping the globe: Iran’s information and communications technology minister has tweeted a map of Iran that shows the virus affecting almost the entire country. Continue Reading
In just 24 hours, Saudi Arabia’s crown prince launched an oil-price war with Russia and sidelined a domestic rival to cement his power at home. But his surprise actions on Continue Reading
Saudi Arabia on Wednesday unveiled plans to boost its oil-production capacity to help fight a price war with Russia, as other producers launched attempts to mediate a truce. The capacity Continue Reading
Even before the collapse of the OPEC+ talks last Friday, Saudi Arabia’s finance ministry had asked government agencies to propose a 20-30 percent cut in their budgets due to the Continue Reading
Iran has asked the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for emergency funding to help it fight the coronavirus outbreak, which has hit the Islamic Republic hard, Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif Continue Reading
Two Americans and one other coalition member were killed in a rocket attack on a base in Iraq on Wednesday night, a U.S. military spokesman said, potentially spiking tensions with Continue Reading
Iraq will suffer more than most Middle East oil producers amid a Saudi-led price war that is flooding the market with cheap crude as OPEC’s second largest producer is already Continue Reading
Petroleos Mexicanos has been in an unrelenting downward spiral for decades. Pemex, Mexico’s state-owned oil company, has seen a vast and speedy decline of its production rates for the last Continue Reading
When the people of Tomioka were finally allowed short visits back to their homes after the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi disaster, one of the first things they did was to prune Continue Reading
